Tell Me When

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The song fared well on the Mainstream Top 40 chart, where it peaked at number nine on 22 April 1995.

Oakey took issue with this description and said in an interview that the band had never stopped recording and performing since its formation in 1977.As it was the first commercial release in the UK by the band for four years it is often incorrectly described as a comeback as many people erroneously believed the band had disbanded in 1990. The band then performs in the main hall of the Wallenstein Palace, surrounded by lit candles and candelabras. The song was originally written for the act, "Fast Arithmetic" (Oakey–Beckett), a side project in development within the Human League environment.

In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton said, "It may not be the biggest new hit of the week but it is certainly the most significant", concluding with that it is "sounding like typical Human League of old". But isn't that what the League have always had, in abundance, with more than a modicum of electronic auteur thrown in? In the US, it peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 15 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and number eight on the Cash Box Top 100. Then there is the tendency to fiddle with the original to such an extent it almost becomes unrecognisable from the outstanding original. Jennifer Nine from Melody Maker viewed it as "a brightly hopeful, wafer-thin compendium of standard League traits, including that pocket calculator-powered "funky" breakdown.A music video was produced to promote the single, and was shot entirely on location in Prague [ citation needed] in the Czech Republic. Released in a variety of vinyl and CD single formats, these variously included remixes of "Tell Me When" by contemporary electronic acts Utah Saints, Development Corporation and Red Jerry, a non-album B-side ("The Bus to Crookes"), and a track from the band's recent collaboration with Yellow Magic Orchestra. It then became the first release by the band under East West, who had signed the Human League after their dismissal by Virgin in 1992. Tell Me When" was the first Human League single to be released from Octopus and was issued in advance of the album.